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A visit to the Pleasant Valley Cemetery ...

Introduction ...

Since our focus is on geography, we don't have burial or interment information. Nor do we have any contact information for the Pleasant Valley Cemetery. For information of that nature, we suggest the Find-A-Grave <1> website: The Pleasant Valley Cemetery (FG ID #97401)

Note: We have organized the cemeteries in our Gazetteer based on a problem that we had while working on our own genealogy. Without specifying the cemeteries involved, we found an ancestor that we believed to have been buried in one cemetery was actually buried elsewhere.

We discovered that his burial had been refused at the last moment and the family had scrambled to make new arrangements. By looking at nearby cemeteries, the surrounding communities and in newspapers of the period, we were finally able to locate his burial site.

Should you find yourself in the same situation, we hope that our Gazetteer helps you discover your lost ancestor.

The Location of the Pleasant Valley Cemetery ...

We are using the following GPS coordinates (latitude and longitude) for the Pleasant Valley Cemetery

Lat:   42.9248°   (42° 55' 29")

Lon:   -97.0123°   (-97° 0' 44")

The Pleasant Valley Cemetery is located in Clay County<2>.

The county seat for Clay County is located in Vermillion. Vermillion lies 10 miles [16.1 km]<3> to the south southeast of the Pleasant Valley Cemetery .

Establishment of the Pleasant Valley Cemetery ...

The Pleasant Valley Cemetery was established in 1920.

Name Variations for Pleasant Valley Cemetery ...

When doing your research, keep in mind that names and their spelling can change over time. Various errors happen - anything from simple spelling to bad translations.

Pleasant Valley Cemetery has also been known as:

  • Pleasant Valley Lutheran Cemetery

If you have information about these names (such as the reason for the change, date of change, the origin of the name), please Contact Us.

List of nearby cemeteries ...

Based on our list of cemeteries, we know of 22 that are within 12 miles [19.3 km] of the Pleasant Valley Cemetery.<4>

We've listed the following cemeteries based on their distance from Pleasant Valley Cemetery, with the nearest first.

  • South Lodi Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the South Lodi Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the South Lodi Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<5> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • The South Lodi Cemetery is located in Clay County
  • Bluff Center Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the west)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Bluff Center Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Bluff Center Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<5> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • The Bluff Center Cemetery is located in Clay County
  • St. Patricks Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the St. Patricks Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the St. Patricks Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<5> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • The St. Patricks Cemetery is located in Clay County
  • Lodi Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the north)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Lodi Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Lodi Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<5> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • The Lodi Cemetery is located in Clay County
  • Spirit Mound Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Spirit Mound Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Spirit Mound Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<5> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • The Spirit Mound Cemetery is located in Clay County
  • Clay Creek Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the south)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Clay Creek Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Clay Creek Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<5> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • The Clay Creek Cemetery is located in Clay County
  • Clay Point Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the east)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Clay Point Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Clay Point Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<5> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • The Clay Point Cemetery is located in Clay County
  • Union Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Union Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Union Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<5> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • The Union Cemetery is located in Clay County
  • Taylor Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Taylor Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Taylor Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<5> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • The Taylor Cemetery is located in Clay County
  • Meckling Cemetery
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Meckling Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Meckling Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<5> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • The Meckling Cemetery is located in Clay County
  • Volin Cemetery
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Volin Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Volin Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<5> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • The Volin Cemetery is located in Yankton County
  • Gayville Cemetery
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Gayville Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Gayville Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<5> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • The Gayville Cemetery is located in Yankton County
  • Continue List   (10 more) ...
    • St. Peters Cemetery
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the St. Peters Cemetery
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the St. Peters Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<5> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • The St. Peters Cemetery is located in Clay County
    • Riverside Cemetery
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Riverside Cemetery
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Riverside Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<5> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • The Riverside Cemetery is located in Clay County
    • Rockfield Cemetery
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Rockfield Cemetery
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Rockfield Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<5> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • The Rockfield Cemetery is located in Clay County
    • Danefield Seventh-day Advent Cemetery
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northeast)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Danefield Seventh-day Advent Cemetery
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Danefield Seventh-day Advent Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<5> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • The Danefield Seventh-day Advent Cemetery is located in Clay County
    • Columkill Cemetery
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the north)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Columkill Cemetery
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Columkill Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<5> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • The Columkill Cemetery is located in Clay County
    • Danisi Cemetery
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southwest)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Danisi Cemetery
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Danisi Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<5> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • The Danisi Cemetery is located in Yankton County
    • Evergreen Cemetery
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southwest)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Evergreen Cemetery
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Evergreen Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<5> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • The Evergreen Cemetery is located in Clay County
    • Bluff View Cemetery
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southeast)
    • Hovde Cemetery
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northeast)
    • St. Johns Cemetery
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northeast)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the St. Johns Cemetery
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the St. Johns Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<5> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • The St. Johns Cemetery is located in Clay County

For an expanded list with details, please visit our List of cemeteries.

List of neighboring communities ...

The following 26 communities are within 10 miles [16.1 km]<3> of the Pleasant Valley Cemetery.

We've listed the following communities based on their distance from Pleasant Valley Cemetery, with the nearest first.

For the full list of neighboring communities with details, please visit our extended List of Communities.

Nearby communities with newspapers ...

The following communities are those where newspapers have been published and are located in the vicinity of the Pleasant Valley Cemetery. Unless otherwise noted, the following communities are located in Clay County.

More information can be found on our list of Local Newspapers for The Pleasant Valley Cemetery.

We've listed the following communities alphabetically.

  • Beresford
  • Centerville
  • Gayville
  • Saint Helena
  • Vermillion
  • Viborg
  • Volin
    • Volin lies 8 miles [12.9 km]<3> to the West Northwest (WNW) of the Pleasant Valley Cemetery.
    • Jump to our list of Local Newspapers for Volin.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Volin
  • Wakonda
  • Wynot
    • Wynot lies 14 miles [22.5 km]<3> to the South Southwest (SSW) of the Pleasant Valley Cemetery.
    • Jump to our list of Local Newspapers for Wynot.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wynot

Websites to help with your research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we begin with the websites from Cyndi's List, FamilySearch and Genealogy Trails. These helpful websites offer the information directly or else point to where you can find it. Their websites are open to everyone.

To help you get started, the following links will take you to the pages that might help with the Pleasant Valley Cemetery:

Miscellaneous References and Mentions ...

Our approach is to add the name of a cemetery whenever we see it mentioned - usually from newspapers, old books and maps. Typically we have little information to start with, but we continue to add detail as we find it.

We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that we found useful for the Pleasant Valley Cemetery:

  • Referenced GNIS Record ...
  • GNIS ID #1257121  (Pleasant Valley Cemetery)
    • Note: GNIS record #1257121 has been archived by the USGS. It is no longer maintained by the USGS, nor can it be retrieved from their website.
    • Class: cemetery         Map Name: Gayville NE
    • County: Clay         Elev: 391
    • Location given for GNIS #1257121 (Pleasant Valley Cemetery)
  • Referenced Find-A-Grave Entry:  #97401

The official website for Clay County: www.claycountysd.org/

The official website for State of South Dakota: https://www.sd.gov/

Footnotes ...

<1>The Find-a-Grave website is an excellent research tool with information about a cemetery's location and interments. They also offer a forum for their members which can provide additional help. More information about Find-a-Grave can be found on their website: findagrave.com.
<2>If you're interested in how the shape of South Dakota's counties, including Clay, have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
<3>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' (or point-to-point) distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- ) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point at the Pleasant Valley Cemetery. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 42.9248, Longitude: -97.0123    
<4>While we have an extensive database of cemeteries (with over 200,000 entries), you can be assured that it's not complete and our list will be missing cemeteries.
<5>The location has been supplied by the Geographic Names Information System - which is maintained by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). While these values should be definitive, we found that accuracy can vary and you should double-check the location if accuracy is required.
<6>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<7>An 'estimated' location is one where we have been given GPS coordinates, but are unable to verify the accuracy of those coordinates. That said, we have some confidence that we have placed the marker near the actual location. A typical reason for being unable to verify a location is that it might be on private property or maybe historic and gone without an obvious trace.




 

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